The Great House

The Great House is a house dated 1698, built for the Sutton family. It has undergone some changes, including partial refenestration and internal remodeling in the early 19th century, along with some repairs in the 20th century. The building features chequer brick with stone dressings, a hipped Swithland slate roof with tiled ridge and hips, and brick chimneys. It is designed in an L-plan with a stair projection at the rear, consisting of two storeys and a cellar, with a three-bay front.

The exterior includes a chamfered plinth of dressed stone, a moulded stone band course at the first floor level, a moulded stone eaves cornice, and chamfered stone quoins. The front has early 19th-century boxed four-pane sash windows with moulded stone sills and flush wedge lintels. There is a two-light cellar window with chamfered stone surrounds and mullions, and small round windows in moulded stone surrounds flank the central door. The door is six-panelled and features a fine stone doorcase with a bolection-moulded architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a moulded semicircular pediment. The tympanum above the door has raised stone lettering that reads 'RSM MDCXCVIII'. The entrance is approached by a spreading flight of five semicircular stone steps, which have been much restored in the 20th century.

The left side of the house also has three bays and retains original raised stone window surrounds with beaded inner edges, moulded sills, and keyblocks. The outer windows are wider than the narrow central lights, and most of these windows are blind and painted. However, the ground floor of the left bay has a wooden cross casement, and the first floor centre has a 19th-century sash window. The interior is said to retain original fireplaces in the cellar, Adam-style fireplaces on the first floor, and re-sited 17th-century panelling that was introduced in the 20th century in the ground floor room. The staircase is not original but remains in its original position.